Twenty Years of Innovation and Discovery First light – that moment when a telescope starts taking observations – is always an exciting day, and for the Green Bank Telescope that day was August 22, 2000. Right away, the Green Bank Telescope (GBT) started observing planets (Venus on March 24, 2001) and pulsars, and to this […]
A new project funded by the National Science Foundation at the Green Bank Observatory will have a big impact on the astronomy community.
The GBT is used for a number of surveys that exploit the unique capabilities of the telescope. Through its web site, the Green Bank Observatory provides facilities to help its users with the organization and execution of surveys, and a place to make the final data products permanently accessible to the community. If you are […]
The Milky Way is chock-full of star clusters. Some contain just a few tens-to-hundreds of young stars. Others, known as globular clusters, are among the oldest objects in the Universe and contain up to a million ancient stars. Some globular clusters are thought to be fragments of our galaxy, chiseled off when the Milky Way […]
Towards the center of our Milky Way Galaxy, in the constellation Sagittarius, astronomers have discovered 10 monstrous neutron stars. Astronomers already knew that 39 pulsars call Terzan 5 home. With the teamwork of the U.S. National Science Foundation Green Bank Telescope (NSF GBT) and the South African Radio Astronomy Observatory’s MeerKAT Telescope, ten more have been added to the count.
Semester 2025A Call for Proposals for the Green Bank Telescope (GBT) is now closed. Disposition Letters will be sent on 05 November, 2024